NEW RELEASES

Polestar has announced yesterday the official release of the Volvo S60 'STCC' in 1:43. The scale model is an exact replica of the Volvo S60 which Thed Björk has driven this season in the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship (STCC). This year's STCC ended last weekend. Thed Björke wrote history in the STCC season finale at Knutstorp by becoming the first ever driver to claim three consecutive titles.You can order your model either at Polestar's official web-shop for €55.40 or at Volvo's official web-shop for €55.35. But don't ask me why there is this tiny price difference. At least the item number 7600042-500-000 is the same at both places. And I guess we will have to wait the first deliveries before we can judge the overall quality of this scale model. The box looks pretty fancy compared to what Volvo used to offer in the past in their merchandising program.

The Italian company Arena Modelli is offering their Volvo 142 S model in a new Rally livery. The new model reflects the Volvo 142 S which has been used in the 19th East African Safari Rally back in 1971. The car was driven by Bengt Söderström (SE) and Palm Torsten (SE). The car wore number 29 and the main sponsor was Hella. The Volvo 142 S ended at the 19th place in this car breaker rally that year (8.4. – 12.4.1971). The East African Safari Rally is known today under the name Safari Rally and it still takes place today.

Some of you might remember that a Volvo once won the East African Safari Rally. Singh Joginder with copilot Singh Jaswant won the 13th edition with a Volvo PV544 Sport back in 1965 (15. 4. – 19. 4. 1965).

This is a very very detailed 1:43 scale resin kit with a lot of photo etched detail parts and excellent decals. Arena Modelli sells these kits for € 65 under item number ARE 741. But Arena Modelli offers you also the possibility to order built-up ones for 160-180 €. Every rtr (ready-to-run) model is made to order.

Brekina has just announced that they have produced a new run of the Volvo Amazon models which has been offered since 2002. Each of the three body versions (2-door, 4-door and estate) are each offered in two new color combos. The new releases are available in new color combos and are offered in Brekina's top of the line product range called TD which stands for Top Decoration. It is just a shame that Brekina does not provide more correct paint schemes.

picture extracted from Brekina's September-October 2015 news flyer

New Volvo Amazon models:

scale

model

exterior color

interior color

item number

price in €

comment

1:87

Volvo Amazon 2-door

white over turquoise blue

tan

29211

€ 13.90

/

1:87

Volvo Amazon 2-door

white over carmine/crimson

tan

29212

€ 13.90

close match with gray-beige over rubyred (51)

1:87

Volvo Amazon 4-door

light gray over dark gray

black

29235

€ 13.90

close match with graybeige over black (49)

1:87

Volvo Amazon 4-door

ivory over azure

?

29237

€ 13.90

with whitewall tyres
close match with grey-beige over midnight blue (54)

1:87

Volvo Amazon estate

moss green

tan

29258

€ 12.90

/

1:87

Volvo Amazon estate

carmine red

tan

29259

€ 12.90

/

Brekina's new flyer shows also four already known models which include the two Volvo Duett versions (#29311 & #29317) as well as the Volvo 144 (#29407) and 145 (#29453) model.

The Australian company Apex Replicas has revealed a few more details regarding the release of the Volvo S60 V8 Supercar '2014 AGP Winner' model. They wrote in their newsletter that the 1:18 and the 1:43 versions are now ready and that you will be able to get your model at this years Diecast Model Expo which will take place this weekend. This show takes place in Penrith near Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.

The Australian company Apex Replicas has revealed a few more details regarding the release of the Volvo S60 V8 Supercar '2014 AGP Winner' model. They wrote in their newsletter that the 1:18 and the 1:43 versions are now ready and that you will be able to get your model at this years Diecast Model Expo which will take place this weekend. This show takes place in Penrith near Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.

Polestar has announced yesterday the official release of the Volvo S60 'STCC' as R/C model in two different scales. I have presented the 1:14 version last month here on minivolvo. The second and larger 1:10 version is now also available in Polestar's official webshop. An R/C model in 1:10 scale is without a doubt a big model. The larger version is intended for outdoor use and the smaller 1:14 version for indoor use.

1:10 - Thed Björk’s Volvo S60 Polestar 'STCC' race car

You can get yourself a model for €277,05 under item number 7600040-500-000. This is of course everything but a bargain. But don't forget that this one is a huge model and it comes with many great features:

The new collection called 'Police Cars Collection' by Editions Atlas is now also out in and available in Norway. And guess what ... the first model is a Volvo. It is however not the Volvo Duett 'Polis' like in the other three Scandinavian countries but a Volvo 850 estate in the livery of the Norwegian Police Services. The starting model of this new 'Police Cars Collection' is available for only 49 NOK which are today 5.31 EUR or 5.98 USD. This price tag includes the model, a booklet, a small pocket lamp as well as the shipping fees. You will receive more small gifts when you will go with the initial subscription to that new collection. You will receive with your second model a box for keeping the booklets followed by a DVD 'Police Cars' with your third model. And the fourth model will include a pencil set. The presentation rack where you can place fifteen models is unfortunately not available within Norway. All the models offered in this collection are made of diecast and feature added on plastic and metal parts. I'm pretty sure that Editions Atlas has planned to add a couple more Volvo's to this new 'Police Cars Collection'.

I have created a new page on minivolvo where I will add all the info's about the Volvo models who will appear in this 'Police Cars Collection' by Editions Atlas. You can access here to that specific page and you will find also a link on the upper right of the '﻿New releases﻿' page on minivolvo.lu

I guess most of you Volvo aficionados out there will have heard and seen by now that an annoying leak recently happened in a toy company somewhere in China. An 1:43 scale model of the new and still secret Volvo S90 seems to have been 'driven' thru the doors of a Chinese toy manufacturer. This is of course a pretty annoying embarrassment for Volvo as well as for the company who is in charge of producing this scale model. The Volvo S90 will replace the Volvo S80 and will be Volvo's new luxurious flagship.

Second batch of leaked pics showing the scale model of the upcoming Volvo S90:

First batch of leaked pics of the upcoming Volvo S90:

My bet is that Norev is still the maker of this new and upcoming Volvo S90 scale model.

Anyway this is not the first time that a leaking scale model steals the show to its big brother by revealing the final shapes and forms of the final to be presented car.

Quote from the website forums.swedespeed.com:

The story about the S90 scale model

In a recent interview with Alan Vissner (Managing director for brand sales and advertisement), he says Volvo ordered 2000 models of the new S90. 20 of which were stolen by an employer of the toy manufacturer, the employee posted the pictures online without knowing that the model was not yet unveiled. Volvo has now managed to buy all of the scale models excepts two, which are still missing.

But Alan Vissner is very happy about the model leak. He was particularly happy about the headlines like; "The A7 killer from Volvo". He wished he was the one who leaked the scale models from the beginning.

He also says that the new S90 is the ultimate test for Volvo. He wants to show people that they can compete in the 4-door salon segment, and compete very well...like in the XC segment. The sales of the new XC90 has brought over 40 percent new customers from other brands, he expect the number to be 80 percent for the new S90.

"But how will we compete against the likes of the 5-series, A6 and E-class?" he asks himself.

Volvo will be focusing on 3 main areas: Design, technology and service.

"The Germans are selling steel, we are selling a promise. We will work on giving a better service then the Germans".

The British company Oxford Diecast has just announced the release of two new Volvo Amazon 4-door models. Yeah indeed not one but two new Amazon's. Oxford Diecast will in fact offer the new tooled diecast model in two different scales which are 1:43 and 1:76. But hey that's another good news. Their models are not very pricey and the overall quality is normally pretty fine.
And now the bad news:

a precise release date is not yet given but that gives you plenty of time saving enough money

Oxford Diecast has not yet mentioned a model-year for the upcoming Volvo Amazon and I don't wanna make an educated guess based on the only illustration they have published so far

BoS-Models surprised certainly most of us when they released two days ago an 1:18 scale model of a Volvo 144. The new model comes in a typical paint scheme from the 1970's. The car is painted mustard yellow and features a brown interior. The mode comes with a German license plate for the city of HB which stands for the Hanseatic city of Bremen ("Hansestadt Bremen"). This model is made out of resin and features plastic and metal detail parts. It has unfortunately no opening or working parts. You can get yourself a copy if you ready to spend 99.95 €. The item number is BOS042 (Nr. 194148).I guess this won't be the last 1:18 Volvo model by this brand.

Bo André has released three new versions of the Volvo PV455 and P210 Duett. The three new liveries are available under his own brand Andre Car Models. The models are as always very well made and only available in very limited numbers. They are made as usual out of white metal and feature many detail parts made out of metal.